Tihomir Jancovski, born in
1967 in Skopje, Macedonia is a poet, translator, and columnist. Before the age
of thirty, the author travelled, studied, and lived all over Europe: Skopje,
Bruxelles, Amsterdam, Skiathos Island, London, Budapest, and more. His
practical experiences include those of a waiter, bar-tender, paper boy,
laborer, musician, salesman, teacher and a journalist. Jancovski studied in the
fields of Literature and History in Macedonia and Medieval Studies in Hungary.
In 2008, he wrote a book on the History of Monasticism in Macedonia in the 20th
century.

Since 1997, the
author has been living in Skopje, working as a translator and World History
teacher. He has compiled and translated an anthology of contemporary Bosnian
poetry and translated Rumi into Macedonian (Two
Worlds). Tihomir Jancovski is considered as one of the most widely-read
poets in his country. Selections of his poems were published in many
international magazines, including Proglas,
Zivot, Muse India, Texas Poetry Review
Journal and Voix Vivre. Thus far,
he has published nine books of poetry, some of which have been translated into
English, Slovakian, Bosnian, Serbian, French, Croatian, Slovenian, German,
Italian, and Albanian.